Mason & Dixon
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- Publication date
- 1997
- Topics
- Mason, Charles, 1728-1786, Dixon, Jeremiah, Mason, Charles (1728-1786), Dixon, Jérémiah, Mason, Charles (Geodät), Dixon, Jeremiah, Frontier and pioneer life, British, Surveying, Surveyors, Frontier and pioneer life, Historical fiction, Vie des pionniers, Géomètres, Belletristische Darstellung
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt
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- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
The lives of two 18th century British astronomers who surveyed the boundary which settled a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was later extended to become the boundary between free and slave states, the Mason-Dixon line. The novel describes their work in Africa and America, and traces their relationship. By the author of Vineland
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December 21, 2023
Subject: Inadvertent Adventurers
Subject: Inadvertent Adventurers
Mason & Dixon is a Christmas story…
Yes, Mason & Dixon is a Christmas tale and as every magnificent Christmas tale should be it is full of adventures, festivity, merriment, mysteries and miracles.
But Thomas Pynchon recounts Christmas stories his own way so all the escapades and mishaps are peculiarly edgy.
Every incredible tale, even the tallest one, shows its modicum of truth however.
The past seen through the prism of the present always becomes rainbowlike.
Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs, starred the Sides of Outbuildings, as of Cousins, carried Hats away into the brisk Wind off Delaware,— the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased, shoes deposited in the back Hall, a stockinged-foot Descent made upon the great Kitchen, in a purposeful Dither since Morning, punctuated by the ringing Lids of various Boilers and Stewing-Pots, fragrant with Pie-Spices, peeled Fruits, Suet, heated Sugar,— the Children, having all upon the Fly, among rhythmic slaps of Batter and Spoon, coaxed and stolen what they might, proceed, as upon each afternoon all this snowy Advent, to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House, years since given over to their carefree Assaults. This Christmastide of 1786, with the War settled and the Nation bickering itself into Fragments, wounds bodily and ghostly, great and small, go aching on, not every one commemorated,— nor, too often, even recounted.
Yes, Mason & Dixon is a Christmas tale and as every magnificent Christmas tale should be it is full of adventures, festivity, merriment, mysteries and miracles.
When Brae, once, and only once, made the mistake of both gasping and blurting, “Oh, Aunt,— were you in a Turkish Harem, really?” ’twas to turn a giant Tap. “Barbary Pirates brought us actually’s far as Aleppo, you recall the difficult years of ’eighty and ’eighty-one,— no, of course you couldn’t,— Levant Company in an uproar, no place to get a Drink, Ramadan all year ’round it seem’d,— howbeit,— ’twas at the worst of those Depredations, that I took Passage from Philadelphia, upon that fateful Tide . . . the Moon reflected in Dock Creek, the songs of the Negroes upon the Shore, disconsolate,—” Most of her Tale, disguis’d artfully as traveler’s Narrative, prov’d quite outside the boundaries of the Girl’s Innocence, as of the Twins’ Attention,— among the Domes and Minarets, the Mountain-peaks rising from the Sea, the venomous Snakes, miracle-mongering Fakeers, intrigues over Harem Precedence and Diamonds as big as a girl’s playfully clench’d fist, ’twas Inconvenience which provided the recurring Motrix of Euphrenia’s adventures among the Turks, usually resolv’d by her charming the By-standers with a few appropriate Notes from her Oboe,— upon which now, in fact, her Reed shap’d and fitted, she has begun to punctuate her brother Wicks’s Tale, with scraps of Ditters von Dittersdorf, transcriptions from Quantz, and the Scamozzetta from I Gluttoni.
But Thomas Pynchon recounts Christmas stories his own way so all the escapades and mishaps are peculiarly edgy.
Every incredible tale, even the tallest one, shows its modicum of truth however.
The past seen through the prism of the present always becomes rainbowlike.
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